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Of Punishments

With regard to the particular mode of punishments which in the
course of this work I have found myself obliged
to propose, there is one thing I would wish the
reader all along to bear in mind; view that for most of these
I have very little predilection. In this kind of
hierarchy the process authority of reason is extremely.
limited. All I can do is to first principles
and draw outlines; the rest must be left
to the capricious and unsteady suffrages of -
[-ment] and imagination.
In Within
So capricious and so unsteady
are these suffrages,
that the same
punishment which in a
given case or person
has not been able to draw
the intention of without
horror another person
will reprobate as
being too slight to be
of any service.
The case is therefore, that within the boundary
marked out by outlines is properly
making neither as right nor [as] wrong in the
case; One man's judgement is as good as another's ;
and the legislation can have light nor other comforts
to by share the local
affections and prejudices of the people. Having
the matter in the above light I have not
the faintest expectation that there would be written
the comforts of human nature or
who would approve of all the punishments have
proposed without exception. There is ,/del>
scarce a reader any one perhaps in whim the finest
while or others may not excite a strong measure very or degree of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field	of punishments
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48655
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